January 19, 2010

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The charges and countercharges among Democrats over what they expect to be Martha Coakley's defeat this evening produced to more emails from knowledgeable national operatives charging the campaign with what one official earlier called "malpractice."

One Massachusetts Democrat offered a litany of details aimed at rebutting a detailed memo from a Coakley advisor that sought to pin some blame on national Democrats.

The Democratic official, who asked to be identified that way, noted the various well-publicized Coakley missteps, from dissing Curt Schilling and staging a Washington, D.C. fundraiser, to taking a vacation and going on air late in the day.

But the official also revealed some of the details of the Coakley campaign that have so angered the professional operatives in Washington -- notably, that Coakley failed to activate Massachusetts' formidable Democratic organization, despite being tarred by association with the "machine."

Coakley didn't the official said, call Boston Mayor Tom Menino until last week.

"Democrats can't win in Mass. without winning Boston by significant margin. That's basic politics," said the official. "Coakley didn’t reach out to Mass. [Congressional] delegation until last week."

She also didn't respond to offers from other big-city mayors, the official said, including the new, young Hispanic mayor of Lawrence who asked Coakley to swear him in. "They never got back to him," the official said.

Another senior Democrat said he'd been stunned to arrive in the state to learn that Coakley had done no advertising in the African-American or Hispanic media, and "no outreach."

Coakley also seems not to have deployed the Kennedy family or their network in the state. And Coakley never came close to matching the roughly two-thirds of support from independent voters Kennedy amassed in his last two elections.

The national party, the official said, did what it could, providing a total of $800,000 given, spent, and raised and 50 full-time staffers and running get-out-the-vote effort, as well as the efforts to attack Brown in the press.

"The campaign found out about polling troubles from [Public Policy Polling] on January 8 or January 9," said the official. "National Dems (DNC, OfA, DSCC) [were] on the ground by that Monday."

What was that that Politico printed last night......The Democrats spent... .$4 MILLION dollars just in thye last ten days ....Coakley was told she had a lockup.....Coakley went on vacation.....Washington believed they had it made in a Blue State.... with a lock in step candidate in bed with BIG Government.....It's both their fault.

It's a statement that the dems aren't progressive ENOUGH. THe base of the dems, the progressive activities, are sitting still, frustrated and disgusted at the namby-pamby conciliations to the repugblivanys and big business. That's why Coackley lost in one of the most progressive states in the county, not because the dems are too liberal.

"charging the campaign with what one official earlier called "malpractice.""
They wish that were true. The problem is the policies in DC, and the way they are being crammed down the throat of a nation that does not want them. Change does NOT equal liberal. Not that hard to understand.

I voted for Ms. Coakley simply for been a Democrat. If I had known that she was not reaching out to the Latino community, I would it understand clearly her stand in that sense and I would it vote for Mr. Brown. Ms.Coakley should talk to the Major Menino, to learn Politics 101 from the Best!

Okay, I fshe failed so miserably in her campaign then she did all of Mass a huge favor by losing now before she could screw things up even worse than they already are!! Barack!! Your drawers are seriously showing my friend! You are going to go down as the biggest failure in Presidential history because of shear arrogance! WE WILL NOT BE CONTROLLED BY THE LIBERAL MACHINE!!!!

KILLSING, Bush screwed the economy. It will take years to fix it. repubs are for the rich. Are you rich? Then, I don't blame you voting repub. Good luck. Repubs always screw the econmy. Start with great depression.

What did you do? You are jeopardizing the future of our children and grandchildren, Massachussetts voters. Now we have someone in Congress who is against cutting carbon emissions, who condones waterboarding, who opposes the health care reform. Why, Martha Coakley, why Massachusetts, why?

To January 19, 2010 at 10:04 PM: Much like Coakley, you just don't get it. With unemployment at 10% officially and more realistically 17%, people don't care about carbon emissions. They care about going out, earning a pay check, feeding their family, and going to bed warm.

To January 19, 2010 at 10:04 PM: Carbon emissions don't harm anything, waterboarding is effective in protecting your children's right to exist, and this version of health care reform screws everyone that has health care - and leaves about 12 million people uninsured, or about 1/3 of the number it was supposed to help in the first place - all while making your children tax poor. That's why, Martha, that's why.

Attention! Attention! on-board the SS. OBAMA; at this time, all liberal,disloyal, finger pointing, cry-baby Libs are invited to don your life jackets, and proceed to your abandon ship stations. BTW, we torpedoed our selves by lying to the AMERICAN public. no pushing or shoving...proceed in an orderly fashion. Should you see sharks in the water; remember to do what comes naturally, hide behind, or use each other as a shield. You may wish to try to reason with and understand the shark, however, the science of Marine Bilogy has shown this to be quite futile, I'm sure in your bondless compassion you will forgive the shark. Good-Luck....you will need it

"US stocks gain over 1%, led by health care"
Definitively I am not and I will not be an analyst (no wonder I’ve lost so much money in stocks).
I would have thought a Republican win is bad for the health care stocks (no universal - or almost universal - coverage so less health care to be provided) but I it seems it is the opposite.

The "Machine" will be of no help to any of these Democrats if they vote along party lines. If they don't understand what just happened, well then, they deserve to lose. It's not the "Machine" people, it's the policies right from the top-that being the Boss, Barack Obama. As they say in Chicago, the Acorns don't fall far from the tree.

I thought Coakley and the National Democrats made some silly mistakes. It wasn't plausible that Brown was a hardcore Republican. It wasn't plausible that ObamaCare was a good idea. Also, Coakley opposed the fight in Afghanistan to win in the primary. Basically, Democrat ideas got defeated. When people hate your issues...you're sunk.